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6:44 pm
January 28, 2011
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
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I just installed the All in One SEO Pack and tossed my regular Wordpress tags since I like the SEO Pack keywords better and didn't want to fill out tags anymore. I also didn't want tags to take up link space anymore. Is that going to bite me in the butt or do the keywords have me covered? Thanks!
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10:02 pm
January 28, 2011
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The College Investor
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Sorry, but it will bite you in the butt! You still need tags, as a lot of search engines use them, and many blog aggregators, such as Technorati, depend on them.
With All in One SEO, you can also make your tags, archives, or categories "noindex". It is recommended that you do NOT do this for tags so they are searchable and indexable by the search engines. I have to say personally that the tag on my site for "scam" does get a lot of search engine hits.
Don't give up on the tags!
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11:42 pm
January 28, 2011
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i would say keep the tags as well. They have value in the search engines.
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8:05 am
January 29, 2011
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Well, crap. I jumped the gun on this one! Oops.
Thanks for letting me know! I'll add tags back. Should they be visible at the bottom of all posts or is it good enough for the post to have them but not show them? I know that's probably a really silly question, but I have no idea how those search engine bots work…
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8:12 am
January 29, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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Post edited 8:14 am – January 29, 2011 by Sustainable PF
Budgeting in the Fun Stuff said:
Well, crap. I jumped the gun on this one! Oops.
Thanks for letting me know! I'll add tags back. Should they be visible at the bottom of all posts or is it good enough for the post to have them but not show them? I know that's probably a really silly question, but I have no idea how those search engine bots work…
I'm pretty sure the engines search the code, not the displayed information (e.g. your post description never appears on the page but is in the HTML). I got rid of all the tags being displayed and I haven't seen any adverse effects. (it just looks cleaner now!)
fwiw I fill in both the tags and the All-in-one-SEO. Not sure if that is smart, dumb or just a waste of time.
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12:28 am
January 30, 2011
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The College Investor
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The tags do not need to be displayed to be effective. You can prevent them from displaying on your posts by editing your theme. Some themes have the option to not display, some don't, but you can always do it manually.
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10:28 am
January 30, 2011
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Question: is it worth it to display a "tag cloud", or detrimental? After reading this discussion, I'm inclined to keep the tags in the posts, but not sure about displaying the cloud. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks.
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11:08 am
January 30, 2011
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Post edited 11:10 am – January 30, 2011 by JT_McGee
My main gripe with tag clouds is that it throws a ton of words to every page/post. I think they're an eyesore too, but that's just my subjective opinion…
If you're going to use tags, TheCollegeInvestor proposed a very good idea: use them, but don't make them visible on your theme. Thus, you experience all the value of tags (the meta data/extra site size–new page for each tag word/categorization) without dividing the power of your in-bound links among many different pages. That would be the route I'd take, actually…I had never thought of that.
Generally, I don't like to send linkjuice to tags because the pages are so variable, and I'd rather promote a new post with the information itself than a tag of many different posts/pages. I suppose if you were to take TCI's route you wouldn't dilute your linkjuice, and instead rely on a sitemap submission/1 single sitemap link to help bots find your tag pages. BRILLIANT!
TCI, care to shed any light into how many visitors your tags page gets from google?
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12:49 pm
January 30, 2011
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Matt Cutts (Google engineer, or something like that…he works at Google in search algos) on tags and tag clouds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..r_embedded
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1:34 pm
January 31, 2011
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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Any way to auto-link up your tags and SEO categories?
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5:29 pm
January 31, 2011
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
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NarrowBridge said:
Any way to auto-link up your tags and SEO categories?
Not that I know of yet…
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5:44 pm
January 31, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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NarrowBridge said:
Any way to auto-link up your tags and SEO categories?
What do you mean by auto-link tags and categories?
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3:59 pm
February 5, 2011
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Sunil from The Extra Money Blog
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in my experience, tags have added no value providing the metas are done appropriately. in fact, tags have sometimes created conflict for many i know. i have never used tags, but religiously do a good job with the meta tags (title, kw and description). i am very happy with my blog's SEO as well as the % traffic received from search engines relative to other resources (i.e. direct hits, referral sites, feedburner, etc)
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